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November 27, 2006 Academy Selects Pair as Film ScholarsBeverly Hills, CA — The influence of Saul Bass and the impact of rock ‘n’ roll on motion pictures will be the topics explored by Jan-Christopher Horak and David Edmund James, respectively, the seventh pair of Academy Film Scholars selected by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The Institutional Grants Committee of the Academy Foundation, the educational wing of the Academy, selected the two scholars for the honor on the basis of their manuscript proposals. Each will receive $25,000 from the Academy. Horak, a visiting professor in the critical studies/archival training program at the University of California, Los Angeles, will write a biography of Saul Bass, a designer of movie posters, studio publicity materials, credits sequences and corporate logos, focusing on his influence on the motion picture industry. James, a professor at the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California, will write his book on the interaction between rock ‘n’ roll and cinema in the United States and the United Kingdom beginning in the mid-1950s, through the “British Invasion” of the 1960s, to the eras of country, disco, punk, heavy metal, and hip-hop and rap. The new Academy Film Scholars will receive the first half of their $25,000 grant at a luncheon in January at the Beverly Hills Hotel. The remaining half will be presented upon completion of the manuscripts, when Horak and James will present their projects in lecture form at a public Academy event. Established in 1999, the Academy Film Scholars program is designed to “stimulate and support the creation of new and significant works of film scholarship about aesthetic, cultural, educational, historical, theoretical or scientific aspects of theatrical motion pictures.” Horak and James join twelve other Academy Film Scholars who are currently working on projects: Tino Balio, University of Wisconsin, Madison; writer Cari Beauchamp; Donald Crafton, University of Notre Dame; Thomas Doherty, Brandeis University; Jane Gaines, Duke University; Stuart Liebman, Queens College of the City University of New York; Charles Musser, Yale University; Dana Polan, New York University; David Rodowick, Harvard University; Steven J. Ross, University of Southern California; Shelley Stamp, University of California, Santa Cruz; and Emily Thompson, Princeton University. For grant guidelines and information about the Academy Film Scholars program, contact Grants Coordinator Shawn Guthrie at (310) 247-3000, ext. 306 or via e-mail at sguthrie@oscars.org, or visit http://www.oscars.org/grants/filmscholars.
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